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Vietnam Agriculture
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A former engineer in Hue grows 30 million dong in monthly sales of oyster mushrooms from acacia sawdust
A Vietnamese bioengineer who quit a technical job in the south grows oyster mushrooms in Hue using acacia sawdust as the substrate. 5,000 bags per cycle, with monthly sales of 30 to 40 million dong. We read it from a sourcing perspective, as dried and powdered forms could become OEM ingredients for Japanese food makers. -
China's frozen-squid exports to the EU down 49.4% in the first half, share halved from 28.1% to 14.2%
Chinese frozen squid is rapidly losing its presence in the EU market. According to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) on July 28, China's frozen-squid exports to the EU in the first half of 2026 came to only 19,690 tonnes, down 49.4% from the same period a year earlier. Of the EU's frozen-squid imports, China's... -
Vietnam abolishes the cooperative requirement for obtaining growing-area codes, shifting to a post-shipment-inspection-led approach
Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has set out a policy to remove "the establishment of a cooperative" from the conditions for obtaining an export growing-area code (ma so vung trong). Reported by Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) dated July 23 as a statement by Deputy Minister Nguyen Hoang Hiep, the administrative procedure... -
Giant freshwater prawns co-cultured in Thanh Hoa's paddies raise the value of the same land 1.5–3 times
Farming that releases giant freshwater prawns (tom cang xanh) into planted rice fields is pushing up the value of the same land several times over in Truong Van, Thanh Hoa province. Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) dated July 24, 2026 reported this organic co-culture of rice plus large freshwater prawns. Grown without pesticides... -
Lam Dong province permits a research export of 23 potato seed varieties, 27,952 seeds, to India
The export that Lam Dong province approved in July was not harvested potatoes but "seed." According to Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) dated July 25, 2026, the province's Department of Agriculture and Environment granted its subordinate "Potato, Vegetable and Flower Research Center" 23 varieties of potato seed, totaling 27,95... -
Nghe An province approves a 618-hectare high-tech forestry zone—integrating large-diameter timber with understory medicinal plants
Vietnam's forestry has long been structured around churning out cheap, thin trees for chips in large quantities. A plan to restructure that is getting under way in the north-central region. According to Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) dated July 27, 2026, Nghe An province, with a "North-Central High-Tech Forestry Application Zone" at its core, grows thick... -
A Thanh Hoa farmer switches to the edible night-scented flower (hoa thien ly), 12 ha pesticide-free under VietGAP
Across the Con Chinh area of Yen Binh district, Thanh Hoa province, paddy fields and sugarcane fields are being replaced by fields of the edible flower "night-blooming flower" (Vietnamese name hoa thien ly, Tonkin jasmine). According to a report carried by the local agricultural journal Nong nghiep Moi truong on July 28, 2026, in Con Chinh village about 30 ha... -
Lam Dong's pepper-growing region: even at high prices, it does not return to heavy chemical use, shifting to soil-and-root cultivation
When pepper prices are high, growing regions tend to increase fertilizer and pesticides to chase higher output. Yet in Lam Dong province, Vietnam's largest pepper-growing region, the opposite move is appearing. What Nong nghiep Moi truong (an agriculture-and-environment paper) reported in a piece dated July 26, 2026 was that "if you want to make pepper healthy, first make the soil healthy... -
A Lam Dong farmer replants an aging Robusta garden with the dwarf variety Xanh lun over three years
Mai Hong Quan, a farmer in Nam Nung, Lam Dong province, is spending three years replanting an aging coffee garden with the dwarf variety "Xanh lun (blue dwarf type)." Those around him recommended high-yielding varieties, but he did not rush, moving to a full switch only after judging the growth of trees he had planted on a trial basis. Cof... -
A Hue farmer converts low-lying poor paddy to lotus, reaching 3-5 times rice cropping and an annual income of JPY 5.9 million
A farmer in Hue who switched poorly drained, low-lying bad fields to lotus (sen) is earning far more than from rice. Le Thi Hoai Uyen of Phu Bai expanded lotus planting from 2 ha to more than 15 ha, and the family's annual income has reached about one billion dong (about 5.9 million yen at roughly 170 dong to the yen). What would not bear fruit with rice...
